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...Dorothy Kilgallen and that his departure should serve as a kickoff for a story of her early exploits. Ekins looked upon the race as a lark. He had said to his associates at the Union-Star, "There is something more important to a working, writing newspaperman than a promotion stunt." Ekins was a brilliant and courageous reporter, and he held the principles of good journalism sacred. He was a newspaperman to the end, and he still looked askance at those who organized publicity stunts to get their names or products into the news columns...
Spoon River. There are three fixed ideas that Americans like to entertain about small towns: 1) they are bucolically idyllic, 2) they stunt, thwart and twist people's lives, 3) they harbor an incredible amount of sexual hanky-panky behind their primly drawn curtains. If any one book by any one man may be said to have fostered these notions, it is Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, which first appeared in 1915. Masters, who died in 1950 at the age of 81, was a Chicago lawyer-turned-poet who had grown up in Petersburg and Lewistown...
When he pitched in exhibition games for the old Philadelphia Athletics and the St. Louis Browns, the late Rube Waddell occasionally waved his fielders to the bench and tried to strike out the side. It was a sensational stunt, but Eddie Feigner, the Rube Waddell of softball, puts on a similar display of prowess in every inning of every game he pitches...
...trick event, each stunt has a value assigned to it by the American Water Ski Association. The skier has two passes of twenty seconds each in which to perform as many different tricks as he can. The points are totaled, deductions for bad form are subtracted, and the skier receives a bonus for not falling in either of the two passes. The skier with the highest score wins the event...
...Since he is both a Negro and blind, Kirk is conditioned to frustration, but he resents any suggestion that he is a musical freak. And his tautly phrased solos on individual instruments at Manhattan's cavernous Village Gate last week refuted any illusion that he is a gimmicky stunt man. A pair of Down Beat awards by inter national jazz critics in the past two years attest his achievement...